Mattress and cushion.



C. B. VAN VORST & N. E. FULKERSON.

MATTRESS AND CUSHION.

APPLICATION FILED Nov. 24. 1915.

Patented Jan. 15, 1918.

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CWLES B. VAN VOBST AND NINA E. FULKERSON; F LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA.

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Patented Jan. 15, 19318..

Application filed November 24, 1915. Serial No. 63,338.

State of California, have jointly invented new and useful Improvements in Mattresses and Cushions, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to mattresses and cushions, and it'has for its object to provide improvements in devices orstructures of this kind with respect to maintenance of and which will be generally superior in efficiency and serviceability, rendering the bills proper form and condition whereby the length of life and comfort and satisfaction in use of such mattresses or cushions will be increased, due to increase of strength and resistance to wear and strain incident to service, and prevention of slipping or disarrangement of the filler or body or stuffing orti'on or portions. Numerous attempts ave been made to provide mattress and cushion constructions which will produce the result above stated, but all of them are open to numerous objections concerning expensiveness, want of positiveness and eofectiveness in use or service, and general inefl'iciency. The present invention has for its object to provide improved mattressor cushion constructions embodying or containing the above eneral required or desired features, whic will be relatively simple and inexpensive in construction orformation, positive in operation and durablein use and service, which will be sightly in appearance,

mattress or cushion comfortable to the user and causing the same to be maintained in proper usable shape or condition under long continued service.

With the above and other objects in view, the invention consists in the novel and useful provision, formation, construction, com bination, association and relative arrangement of parts, members and features, all as hereinafter described, shown in the drawing, and finally pointed out in claims.

In the drawmg:

Figure 1 IS an isometric view of an im-' proved mattress formed, constructed and organized in accordance with the invention, the upper covering" of the same being shown as rip ed loose and turned backat one corner o the same, wd parts being broken away and sectioned for clearness of illustratlon;

Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view through one end of themattress shown in Fig. 1;

Fig. 3 is an inner face view of one of the coverings of a modified form of mattress, or-

ganized, formed and constructed in ac cordance with the invention; and,

Fig. 4 is a transverse sectional view through the covering shown in Fig. 3, showing the fullness provided in the covering proper.

Corresponding parts in all the figures are designated by the same reference characters.

Referring with particularity to the drawing, the improved mattress is shown in Figs. 1 and 2 as comprising top and bottom covers A and B respectively, between which extend side or edge covers C, all of which are secured together to form an inclosing ease for the filler or body or stuffing D, which as shown in the drawing may consist of layers 03 of felt or other suitable material. All of the covers are preferably formed of suitable textile material, although other flexible material may be employed. llhe side or edge covers C are of any preferred form and pattern, and the top and bottom covers may be of any particular shape or pattern desired, in accordance with the general design of the mattress or cushion. Each of the top and bottom covers A and B is provided with a plurality of spaced tufts E, usually arranged at evenly spaced intervals, such tufts being connected together by cords or stitching in the usualmanner, the latter being passed through the body or filler D, in order to draw each of the covers A and B down intimately upon or against or into the body D, ina line extending, between the tufts E, so as to produce a subdivided mattress or cushion formation, after thef'pattern predetransverse rows of tufts, and preferably its lllltl I midway between the same, we provide strips 6 of tape'or other inelastic material, cut to the exact width of the finished mattress or cushion, and stitched to the respective covers A and B thereof near the ends of such' strips and slightly inward of the cover edges, as at 7, and at both ends of said strips, and stitched to the cover midway the finished mattress and being stitched to the respective covers A and B near the ends of such strips and near the ends of the respective cover, as at 10, and being stitched to the cover midway between the ends of such strips 9 and the ends of the covers, as at 11, such stitching providing fullness of mattress cover fromend to end, and pre-. ventin the stretching or distortion longitudiml ly of the mattress. In the finished mattress, the extreme ends of the strips 6 and 9 are sewed onto the edge covers C together with the top and bottom covers A and B. The mattress cover is preferably only stitched at the places described so that the covers are not bound to and united with the strips at too many points, but are free,

to the extent allowed by the fullness provided in such covers, to be properly adjusted and to properly conform to the surface requirements of the mattress, and permit the proper tufting of the same. 7

In the modified form of mattress cover illustrated in Figs. 3 and 4, only transverse strips 6 are employed and 'these strips are stitched to the respective cover A or B, only the inside of the cover A being shown in Fig. 3, such stitching being near the ends of the strips 6, as at 7 and at a point midway between thestitches 7, as at 8, and when the covers A and B. are united to the edge covers C in assembling the mattress, the extreme edges of the strips C, which are of a length corresponding to the exact ,width of the finished mattress, are stitched down to the edge covers with the edges of their respective top and bottom covers. In

Fig. 4, which is a transverse sectional view 7. through a mattress cover such as is shown in Fig. 3, the fullness of the cover A is illustrated, a strip 7 being shown as stretched tight as it would tend to do under spreading strains imposed on the mattress, and itwill be clear from this figure how the stitching 8 midway between the stitching 7 near the ends of the strip provides for fullness of mattress cover at both sides of the stitching 8asataandb.-

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oin descri tion taken in connection with b the accompanying drawing and the following statement.

The strips 7 having their ends stitched fast to the edges of the respective top and care of all lateral spreading strains as the strips are of inelastic material and of suf- .ficient width to' provide the required strength, and the covers may be plaitecl and drawn into the filler by the tufts which produce depressions in the covers, the fullness of the covers, as illustrated at a and I) permitting plaiting and inward distortion of covers at the tufts to provide the required .or desired mattress or cushion surface and permit the cords and stitches which pass through the covers and the filler to be drawn tightly so as to prevent slippage or displacement of filler and conserve the proper arrangement and distribution of such filler, thus insurin the best and most serviceable condition '0 mattress or'cushion with respect to both comfort of user and'appear- It is apparent that when the 101) itudinally extending strips 9 are used in addition to the transverse strips 6, both lateral and longitudinal expansion or stretching of the -mattress will be prevented, and as whatever a bottom covers and the edge covers C, take strips may be employed are free from the cover for relatively great portions of their length, being in fact, only secured to the covers atthe edges of such covers and at the point intermediate such edges, the cover is free to a certain extent to yield to the pull incldent to strains imposed upon the mattress and to conform to the tufting'requirements, independently of the strips whose function is to prevent spreading.

Having thus disclosed our invention, we claim and desire to secure by Letters Patent: 1. A mattress or the like having a=cover, parallel lateral reinforcing strips extendin from edge to edge of said cover, and rows 0 tufts alternating with said reinforcing strips and arranged between the same, said reinrgaeame 55;

parallel lateral reinforcements extending In testimony whereof, we have signed our 10 from edge to edge of sand cover, and. tufts names to this specification in the presence alternating with said reinforcements and beof two subscribing witnesses.

tween the same" said reinforcements being secured at their ends to the edges of the CHARLES VAN VORST cover and being secured to the cover at the NINA FULKERSON median line thereof; said reinforcements be- Witnesses: ing taut and shorter than the width of the ALFRED H. DAEHILER,

cover. FRANCIS L. Issmee. 

